Saturday, December 5, 2015

NYT: How Many Mass Shootings Are There, Really?

The other day, the Washington Post stated with great authority that there had been 355 mass shootings this year. Naturally, the more excitable elements of the media picked up this number and repeated it until many thought it was true. Certainly, the bishops of Connecticut believed it as they also quoted it in their pastoral letter.

Here's the interesting thing: Mother Jones magazine, which is hardly a conservative journal or staffed by members of the John Birch Society, examined for themselves the number of mass shootings that have occurred this year and their number was...four.